Just to close this out. The following link seems to answer my question and affirm that it's not a terrible thing to change *$:/core/ui/Actions/new-journal * (although it references "new-tiddler" instead).
https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/t/how-to-have-a-fields-key-pre-populated-when-creating-new-tiddlers/4742 I will direct my further inquiries to the https://talk.tiddlywiki.org site. Thank you, Mohammed, for sending me there! On Saturday, December 31, 2022 at 8:21:15 AM UTC-8 Boazter wrote: > Greetings! > > I would like to automatically add fields when I start a journal tiddler. > I've searched and don't find an easy way to do this. Some of the comments > I've read seems overly complicated and is over my head. I only dabble in > the behind-the-scenes code, my level being "tinkerer." Looking at some of > conversations and piecing together things, however, it seems to me that I > could simply add text in the *$action-sendmessage* command within > *$:/core/ui/Actions/new-journal*. > > Now, I suspect this will cause a visceral reaction throughout the > community–shock and howls of outrage. I imagine you'd want me to clone some > shadow tiddler or other and update or entirely rewrite others; but, I mean, > if I'm careful and test it out first, is that not a solution? It seems to > work on my test tiddler. Will I break something else or cause some other > major issue that I'm not aware of? > > Below is my proposed change to *$:/core/ui/Actions/new-journal *with the > simple addition of the following: > > *field1="F1 Default" field="F2 Default" field3=""* > > \define get-tags() $(textFieldTags)$ $(tagsFieldTags)$ > <$vars journalTitleTemplate={{$:/config/NewJournal/Title}} > textFieldTags={{$:/config/NewJournal/Tags}} > tagsFieldTags={{$:/config/NewJournal/Tags!!tags}} > journalText={{$:/config/NewJournal/Text}}> > <$wikify name="journalTitle" text="""<$macrocall $name="now" > format=<<journalTitleTemplate>>/>"""> > <$reveal type="nomatch" state=<<journalTitle>> text=""> > <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" title=<<journalTitle>> > tags=<<get-tags>> text={{{ [<journalTitle>get[]] }}}/> > </$reveal> > <$reveal type="match" state=<<journalTitle>> text=""> > <$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" title=<<journalTitle>> > tags=<<get-tags>> *field1="F1 Default" field="F2 Default" field3=""* > text=<<journalText>>/> > </$reveal> > </$wikify> > </$vars> > > Is there a better way to do this? An easier way than cloning and rewriting > code? > > Thoughts, recriminations? > > Thanks much! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/f68830ab-3e95-4519-8a7c-08bd7e42b1a6n%40googlegroups.com.
